Note to Þul Óðins 1III
[6] Gautr: One of the most frequently used Óðinn-names, which is also mentioned in Grí 54/6 and in the list in Gylf. It was perhaps originally the name of the eponymous father of the Gautar (people of Gautland, modern Västergötland), and hence of the Goths who, according to Jordanes, came to the Continent from Scandinavia. Snorri, however, argues that the legendary king Goti = Gautr (whom Gautland and Gotland is named after) received his name from one of Óðinn’s names (Skm, SnE 1998, I, 105). According to Falk (1924, 11-12), the Óðinn-name Gautr must be of Germanic origin because some Germanic tribes trace their ruling dynasties back to Gautr, their divine ancestor. In Anglo-Saxon sources, for example, Woden (ON Óðinn) is said to descend from the OE Gēat, whose name corresponds to ON Gautr (Turville-Petre 1964, 70).
References
- Bibliography
- Turville-Petre, Gabriel. 1964. Myth and Religion of the North. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
- SnE 1998 = Snorri Sturluson. 1998. Edda: Skáldskaparmál. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2 vols. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
- Falk, Hjalmar. 1924. Odensheite. Skrifter utg. av Videnskapsselskapet i Kristiania. II. Hist.-filos. kl. 1924, 10. Kristiania (Oslo): Dybwad.
- Internal references
- 2017, ‘ Anonymous, Gautreks saga’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 241. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=9> (accessed 26 April 2024)
- (forthcoming), ‘ Snorri Sturluson, Skáldskaparmál’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=112> (accessed 26 April 2024)
- (forthcoming), ‘ Snorri Sturluson, Gylfaginning’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=113> (accessed 26 April 2024)
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